List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1983.

• Lennart Anderson, American painter and distinguished professor emeritus of painting and drawing at Brooklyn College^[1]
• Richard P. Brickner, writer; member of the writing workshops faculty, New School for Social Research^[2]
• Annette W. Coleman, professor of biology at Brown University
• Edwin M. Duval, professor of French at Yale University
• Paul Gottfried, professor at Elizabethtown College^[3]
• John Harding, photographer^[4]
• David Gries, professor of computer science at Cornell University
• Marcia K. Johnson, professor of psychology at Princeton University
• John Melby, composer of classical music
• James R. Mellow, biographer
• Boris Moishezon, professor of mathematics at Columbia University
• Julian Moynahan, professor of English literature at Rutgers University^[5]
• Annabel Patterson, professor of English at Duke University
• Alvin E. Roth, professor of economics at Harvard University's Harvard Business School.
• Howard J. Schnitzer, professor of physics at Brandeis University
• Joan Snyder, American painter from New York
• Ted Stamm, American painter from New York^[6]
• Elizabeth C. Traugott, professor of linguistics at Stanford University
• Enrico Mario Santí, Cuban-American writer, poet, and scholar of Spanish American Literature^[7]

• Guggenheim Fellowship